Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1403)

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:05:45AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > pgace.h: you have a bunch of "static inline" functions in here.  As far
> > as I know this doesn't work in compilers other than GCC :-(  See
> > pg_list.h (list_head) for an example.  I think we can tolerate this for
> > the three functions in pg_list.h because they are so few and so tiny,
> > but I'm not sure about PGACE because they are a large lot.  On the other
> > hand, turning them to real functions would be a performance hit.
> 
> Really? C99 requires it and MSVC does support it.

Apparently we're stuck with C89 for some time yet; maybe an upgrade can
be argued, if a large gain by the jump to C99 can be demonstrated:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-11/msg01494.php

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